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Description: | A crowd watches a Punch and Judy show in a street in Leicester Square. Punch is waving his truncheon at a dog. In that era it was common to see live animals used in shows.
The spectators are mostly adults. Over the following decades the show was increasingly aimed at children, rather than being produced as entertainment for the public.
Punch and Judy have been entertaining people for centuries. His character has remained constant. He is a rascal who enjoys mocking the restrictions of polite society. Part of his charisma stems from his contradictory nature: he is both witty and stupid, comic and cruel.
Stagg and Mantle was a ladies' dress shop in Leicester Square that specialised in robes, silks, costumes, mantles, linens, and stocked furnishings. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Leisure Cityscape | Temporal: | 17 Jul 1926 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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